Cowbee [he/they]

I personally think that any situation where people are pressed between Susan Collins and a boot that killed people for fun, we should be overthrowing the system entirely.

Socialism was never a blight, while capitalism in the 20th century absolutely was, and had already reached the imperialist stage.

Various, multifaceted reasons. There isn’t a one size fits all answer to that, but compounding problems. Each party has different takes on what was more or less important, but the big takeaway was that it was by no means inevitable.

I’m aware of the dissolution of the USSR. It lasted for nearly a full century, and the causes of its dissolution have been studied by every single communist party in existence thoroughly. They didn’t dissolve because a random far-right Statesian whispered evil things, that was a symptom of the dissolution.

Further, without the US Empire, there aren’t going to be nearly as many ways for the remaining capitalists to exert their will or coup.

The USSR, PRC, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, and many more serve as valuable lessons for us. We can’t cleanly map their conditions onto ours, as the US is a dying Empire rather than an underdeveloped/agrarian society liberating themselved from colonialism like many of these countries were before socialism, but we can still learn from their methods.

As for the millitary, that’s an aspect of the state. Capitalists only control the resources they do because the state backs them up. Revolutionary history teaches us how this unfolds.

Again, taking cues from socialist countries, creating a mass working class party to overthrow and replace the state. We aren’t talking about just attacking with no plan going forward, but organizing directly so as to already have an organization in place. Capitalists only have the power they do because of the state, if we smash and replace it they have no power.

Better yet, let’s learn from the success of socialist countries and smash the capitalist state, replace it with a socialist one, and gradually collectivize production and distribution with a focus on meeting the needs of the people.